History TearJerker / AtopTheFourthWall

* In Linkara's ''ComicBook/JusticeLeagueCryForJustice'' review, the moment where he unleashes his fury at Lian Harper's death wasn't funny in the slightest. Whereas normally, Linkara adds a bit of a dorky whine to his angry voice in order to convey a bit of comedy, even when he reviewed Countdown, there was NONE of that in Linkara's voice during that scene. Instead, there was nothing but pure, unmitigated fury toward James Robinson for killing off one of his favorite characters for nothing more than an unforeshadowed Shock Death that ALSO ruined the comic series that got him into comics, the Titans, because Lian Harper's presence in the book helped humanize Arsenal, her father.

* His commentary at the end of ''ComicBook/HeroesInCrisis'' regarding heroes being casually killed or turned evil is quite sobering. For all comic book fans like to joke that DeathIsCheap in comics, the fact is that for every major hero who's died and come back there are a dozen c-list characters, like Hotspot and Lagoon Boy, who ''never'' came back because they just don't have enough fans for the executives to care. Case in point, Lewis refers to his all-time favorite superhero, Danny Chase, aka Phantasm of ''ComicBook/TheNewTeenTitans'', a [[TheScrappy Scrappy]] character who died all the way back in 1992 and has ''never'' come back. Odds are that any minor hero casually killed for shock value in ''any'' event comic you read will have at least ''one'' person for whom that character was their favorite superhero.

* In "Still Another 15 Mistakes of AT4W", the last two mistakes has him humbly apologizing for jokes he made:
** in ''ComicBook/MaximumCarnage'', he mocks the doctor telling Carnage that they all have monsters with them by saying "I have a Wendigo in me!". He had no idea that mentioning the name of the Algonquin Spirit was utterly taboo, especially since he's "whiter than a sheet of paper" and thus no authority on such things.[[note]]In his defense, he ''does'' remember the Marvel villain of the same name and is just as worried about mentioning him[[/note]]
** In ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheKillingJoke'', he mocks Jim Gordon in two parts when the Joker strips him naked and tortures him with pictures of the wounded Barbara Gordon. He admits that was amazingly in bad taste, since he was angry with what happened to Barbara and treated Jim's own assault as a DoubleStandard.

* In the story segment of his Ashock the Fourth Wall review for "The Ring, vol. 4", [[spoiler: It's implied that for all of her claims of volunteering for the ritual that would turn her into her universe's version of the Magic Gun, that Mirror Margaret is in truth in complete denial of just how much it actually scared and hurt her. As Prime Universe Mark points out to her, they both suffered the same childhood, with the same abusive cultists for parents who sacrificed them for their selfish goals. The key difference is that whereas Prime Universe Mark recognized this betrayal and decisively destroyed the cult to free himself, Mirror Margaret cannot face this possibility, and instead doubles down in her fealty towards the dark god.]] It's sadly very much TruthInTelevision, as people who are part of a {{Cult}} do not always want to recognize the truth of their indoctrination, and instead might double down in the face of reality.

TearJerker moments in ''WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall''. For examples from ''WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWallTheMovie'' see [[TearJerker/AtopTheFourthWallTheMovie here]]. For ''WebVideo/HistoryOfPowerRangers'' examples, see [[TearJerker/HistoryOfPowerRangers here]].

* His review of the episodes of the ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'' cartoon's adaptation of Terra's arc has a subtle one; many fans had noted that the Wario hat that was in the videos as a tribute to [[WebVideo/YouCanPlayThis JewWario]] is no longer there. As noted above, Lewis may have been very hurt by the revelations about a long-gone friend. To his credit, he doesn't mention it, and goes on with the review like normal, but it doesn't make it any less sad. Made a little bit worse when you realize the episodes he's reviewing are about a friend of the heroes doing something horrible.

** Pollo never backed himself up, because he said he it wouldn't be "him"; it would be like a clone, a different person. You ever wonder why Linkara never tried to resurrect anyone via cloning after attempting it with Spoony (and why he didn't offer it as an option when Ma-ti died?) ''That was Pollo's influence.''

TearJerker moments in ''WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall''. For ''WebVideo/HistoryOfPowerRangers'' examples, see [[TearJerker/HistoryOfPowerRangers here]].

* The first trailer for the movie has Linkara considering stopping the show.
** As of the actual first section, we discover it's because all the shit that's happened to him over the course of the storylines seem to have provoked some traumatic stress.
*** Also from the trailer:
--->'''Nash:''' We almost died...I'm not okay with that.
** Harvey admits he doesn't believe in God, mainly because of him having lost his son.
** The death of Allen and Linkara's reaction to it.
** Linkara admitting that he feels like he's just waiting to die.
** Linkara's conversation with Allen's corpse about how he feels like his life is a comic book sometimes, adding in how he may just go through a reboot, do something like Spider-Man did in One More Day or have something like what happened to Arsenal in Cry for Justice. Given how much Linkara hates those books...
** Linkara reflecting too late ([[BackFromTheDead except not]]) on what an asshole he's been to Allen.

* While watching over ''Film/ManOfSteel'', Lewis had been doing a running commentary of sorts on his Twitter feed about the film as he prepared for the review. However, after a few days of "Snyder Bros" descending onto the thread and attacking him, he deleted the entire thing in frustration, tired of being attacked.
** In the review itself, for all the faults the movie had, Linkara was willing to look them over when he first saw it... until the end, when Superman performed a NeckSnap on Zod. To him, Superman [[ThouShaltNotKill doesn't kill]]. He's meant to be ''better'' than us, to find a better way to solve problems. This Superman didn't and, to Linkara, the DC Extended Universe was ruined for him. He had no interest in any other film.

* Holokara's rant about superheroes in the end of Batman: Jazz #1 was surprisingly tearjerking. [[MotiveRant It's the accumulated rage]] that Linkara (and comic book fans in general) has built up towards DC and Marvel and DC for continuously derailing the characters he loves.

--> '''Holokara''': ''Will you just THINK about it!?'' We have the power to FIX things! No more [[ComicBook/OneMoreDay heroes making deals with the devil.]] No more [[ComicBook/JusticeLeagueCryForJustice "proactive" superhero teams! No more characters killed off]] [[[[ComicBook/{{Ultimatum}} for meaningless shock deaths!]] No more [[ComicBook/New52 half-assed reboots or retcons!]] They keep claiming to be guardians and shepherds of these characters, yet do ''nothing but hurt'' them! [...] They'll never change unless we ''make them change.''

* Holokara's rant about superheroes in the end of Batman: Jazz #1 was surprisingly tearjerking.
--> '''Holokara''': They'll never change unless we ''make them change.''

* Linkara telling Harvey and Pollo that whenever he uses the Magic Gun, he can hear her whispering in his ear... and now he can't.

--> Linkara: [answering his phone] "Hello?...uh huh...oh...OH! He said that, huh? Made that crap up too, huh? [sighs] OK, yeah, screw him. Thanks for letting me know. Bye."

** Becomes even worse when the DC relaunch happened, where Lian Harper very ''existence'' was [[RetGone retconed]] along with Linkara's favorite Titans team. Even though his anger in The New Teen Titans Anti-Drug PSA about this was funny, you can tell that this whole thing has really upset him. Especially since in his ''Rise of Arsenal'' review, he stated that if they did not retcon Lian's death, he would lose more respect for DC than from the act itself. BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor indeed.

** Notice the way Lewis sighs and takes a deep breath as he puts the comic down, with sadness and loathing in his eyes (and again when he picks it back up), as if to say "I can't believe we live in a world where I should ever have to talk about this". Lovhaug's internal pain is obvious in this scene as he explains that terrorists are real, existing to instill fear into others in an attempt to get them to do what the terrorists' want. The message of ''Holy Terror'' is basically, that fear of people who may have trivial connections to terrorism is justified, as even if they are associated with terrorists just because they're from a terrorist country or they're the same race as them, they're still terrorists; thus, we're justified in submitting to that fear, and, as a consequence, embracing the dark and inhumane parts of ourselves, inflicting harm onto others as they had done to us.

** Notice the way Lewis sighs and takes a deep breath as he puts the comic down, with sadness and loathing in his eyes (and again when he picks it back up), as if to say "I can't believe we live in a world where I should ever have to talk about this". Lovhaug's internal pain is obvious in this scene as he explains that terrorists are real, existing to instill fear into others in an attempt to get them to do what the terrorists' want. The message of ''Holy Terror'' is basically, that fear of people who may have trivial connections to terrorism is justified, as even if they are associated with terrorists just because they're from a terrorist country or they're the same race as them, they're still terrorists; thus, we're justified in submitting to that fear, and, as a consequence, embrace the dark and inhumane parts of ourselves, inflicting harm onto others as they had done to us.

** Notice the way Lewis sighs and takes a deep breath as he puts the comic down, with sadness and loathing in his eyes (and again when he picks it back up), as if to say "I can't believe we live in a world where I should ever have to talk about this". Lovhaug's internal pain is obvious in this scene as he explains that terrorists are real, existing to instill fear into others in an attempt to get them to do what the terrorists' want. The message of ''Holy Terror'' is basically, that fear of people who may have trivial connections to terrorism is justified, as even if they are associated with terrorists just because they're from a terrorist country or they're the same race as them, they're still terrorists; thus, we're justified in submitting to that fear, and, as a consequence, embrace the dark and inhumane parts of ourselves, inflincting harm onto others as they had done to us.

** Notice the way Lewis sighs and takes a deep breath as he puts the comic down, with sadness and loathing in his eyes (and again when he picks it back up), as if to say "I can't believe we live in a world where I should ever have to talk about this". Lovhaug's internal pain is obvious in this scene as he explains that terrorists are real, existing to instill fear into others in an attempt to get them to do what the terrorists' want. The message of ''Holy Terror'' is basically, that fear of people who may have trivial connections to terrorism is justified, as even if they are associated with terrorists just because they're from a terrorist country or they're the same race as them, they're still terrorists; this, we're justified in submitting to that fear, and, as a consequence, embrace the dark and inhumane parts of ourselves, inflincting harm onto others as they had done to us.

** Notice the way Lewis sighs and takes a deep breath as he puts the comic down, with sadness and loathing in his eyes (and again when he picks it back up), as if to say "I can't believe we live in a world where I should ever have to talk about this".